CALL UOUsj#10 / IN DETAIL

08.06.2025

UOU scientific journal

Issue #10 / IN DETAIL

December 2025

Guest Editor: Angela Kyriacou Petrou / University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

12 June 2025 – 5pm CET

Call opens.

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07 September 2025

Full paper submission.

01 October 2025

Outcome of double-blind peer review process.

01 November 2025

Final submission of completed papers.

This issue explores the complex con-junctions between people, materials and meanings through the micro-scales of architecture. The detail is the point at which things meet –an entanglement between materiality and everyday life. From technical detailing to the materiality of living, the issue seeks to identify the potential opportunities held in junctions, processes and moments of material convergence. Whether matter or data, material moments are not seen as purely static but instead are understood as instances which bring potential interactions into being.

The call gives emphasis to the drawing, interrogating the objective material certainty that it assumes.

Seen as part of a bigger story, the drawing stands as an instruction for relationality; for the material presence of a future space or detailed examination of the corporeality of life, either way, it is a visual testimony to life lived. To make these observations, we need to examine material details as moments of a larger series of interactions and multiple temporalities, represented through a slice of space. We may witness and draw our environment- like detectives - in slow motion, attempting to reveal micro details, opportunities, invisible stories and non-human entities. Drawing on what moves within space, authors are invited to explore or question the drawing as a tool of interrogation from (the) detail to the whole.

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UOUsj is the scientific peer-reviewed journal of UNIVERSITY of Universities and investigates the sharing of intercultural interests explored in international architecture schools in close connection with the arts. Every issue underlines a specific topic addressed by one of the universities involved in the Research Project.

Therefore, we encourage contributions related to the result of pedagogical experiences and contributions that have emerged from research that engages with the topic underlined by the call in the disciplines of architectural design, urbanism and environmental studies, art, and associated areas of study.

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